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Upcoming Seminars

Oct. 19th, 11:30 AM

Blackwell Seminar: Who Gets Averaged Away? Statistical Models for Intersectional Health Inequities

Seminar presented by Stephanie Cook

Statistical models of health inequities often represent race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic position as separate variables and then estimate their individual and combined associations with health. Intersectionality theory starts from…

HUB 250

Oct. 26th, 11:30 AM

Learning from dependent data: From functional estimation to predictive inference

Seminar presented by Ashwin Pananjady

Given a random sequence of length n from some discrete but unknown distribution, can we estimate, for each k, the mass placed by the distribution on elements occurring k times? Can we produce a region in which the (n+ 1)-th point must lie with some…

Academic Job Opportunities

Assistant Professor in Statistics

The Department of Statistics at the University of Washington invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of September 2027. We seek applicants who demonstrate commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and service in a diverse and inclusive academic community. The successful candidate will join our faculty on a full-time basis for a nine-month academic appointment (September 16 - June 15) for a three-year, renewable term beginning September 16, 2027.

Statistics Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

Applications are invited for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

These are hourly appointments open to undergraduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here

Statistics Graders and Tutors

Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.

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Research Papers

Gradient-Guided Density Peak Clustering

Yikun Zhang, Yen-Chi Chen

Published 10/1/2026

Density peak clustering (DPC) connects each observation to its nearest neighbor of higher density and identifies cluster centers as high-density observations with unusually large nearest neighbor uphill shifts. The resulting uphill paths from observations to cluster centers, however, can be irregular and unstable in low-density regions, making the clustering…

Imputation is all you need: double robustness, semiparametric efficiency, and automatic covariate balance for estimating the average treatment effect

Fang Han, Peng Ding

Published 9/29/2026

Imputation-based causal estimation is typically viewed as relying exclusively on an outcome model, in contrast to augmented inverse-probability weighting, whose consistency is protected by fitting two nuisance models. This paper argues that this view can be misleading by highlighting a hidden dual weighting structure in least-squares sieve regression imputation. Although…

Statistical Inference for Bivariate Functional Causal Discovery

Shreya Prakash, Fan Xia, Elena A. Erosheva

Published 9/14/2026

Causal discovery methods aim to determine the causal direction between variables using observational data. Functional causal discovery methods rely on structural and distributional assumptions to determine directionality but typically lack statistical inference. This paper reviews the statistical guarantees of existing functional causal discovery…

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